Libero 033: Can We Not Just Be More Like Wimbledon?

9 Jul 2025 · 58 min · Episode 33

Episode Libero 033: Can We Not Just Be More Like Wimbledon?

0:00 57:41

On today’s episode Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Horncastle and Rory Smith discuss the Club World Cup, where James saw the start of the tournament, with Rory now in New York to see its climax. They ask whether this is the future of football, or just a very clear view of its present.

Then conversation returns to last week’s question (27:05): what could threaten football’s dominant place in global culture? Could it be a threat from within football, with the game churning out so much content, or starting to fragment? Or are its threats coming from outside, whether from fast-adapting different sports (cricket or F1), or the technological threats to our attention spans?

Produced by: Tom Bassam

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